Definitions for equipoise

A state of being equally balanced; equilibrium; -- as of moral, political, or social interests or forces.

Counterbalance.

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Citations for equipoise

What matters is the poetry, and the truest readings of it "are those which are sensitive to the strangeness of Marvell's genius: its delicate equipoise, held between the sensual and the abstract, its refusal to treat experience too tidily, the uncanny tremor of implication that makes the poems' lucid surfaces shimmer with a sense of something undefined and undefinable just beneath."James A. Winn, New York Times

I cannot see how the unequal representation which is given to masses on account of wealth becomes the means of preserving the equipoise and the tranquillity of the commonwealth.Edmund Burke,